FELLOW JOURNOSAURS: What lesson or lessons did you learn from your “old school” days in media that are meaningful and relevant today. What methods or practices from the “old days” are still valuable to you even though advancing technology and the advent of “new” media on the surface seems to have rendered them quaint, curious or obsolete?
Your answers will become part of a presentation at the National College Media Convention in New Orleans in late October. I’ve pasted in the description below. And, of course, there will be a companion web site (Journosaurs.com — now under development) so I can use more visuals if any of you can suggest or provide.
Disclaimer: I know some of you are much too young to be considered “old coots” or “Journosaurs.” If you think I have suggested such, I apologize. But, some of your teachers certainly fit that description;-)
Bill Neville
Journosaurs
What can you learn from “old school” journalism? Counting heads. Percentage wheels. Border tape. Old school FTP. Typesetting code. Writing for a TeleType. Mad photo-mechanical skills. Join this group of veteran, i.e. aging, advisers who earned their designation as Journosaurs the old-fashioned way … on deadline. What are the journalistic pre-history lessons, and how are these relevant today? Participants will get an authentic Journosaur Word Processor absolutely free. (Visit Journosaur.com to learn more.)
Bill Neville, University of Alabama at Birmingham
We must credit the blog Reflections of a Newsosaur (http://newsosaur.blogspot.com), produced in affiliation with Editor & Publisher for inspiration in chronicling this procession of curmudgeons.